Josette Lee Jacobson,
My dearest love, my little plum, my one and only,
Today is Saturn’s day, the god of time.
Today is the most significant day of my life.
The day that brings an end to the floods
The seventh day of the seventh month
Of the seventh year of the third millennium
Since the Master worked his magic in this world.

Together, we stand in the sundial
On high ground, bound on all sides by our loved ones.
One level above where we dwelled when the floods began,
Where I knelt on one knee and asked for your hand in marriage.
The cherubs have lifted us up.
We’re one step closer to Heaven.
One kiss away from True Love.

But it’s not yet enough.
So by the Great Divine, the One Most High, the Grand Creator of the Earth and Sky
I solemnly swear upon my life
To love you the best I can, for all my life.
To enter our covenant as man and wife as I would enter a temple:
Faithfully, and with reverence.
To always keep in remembrance the goodness you represent:
My lover, my healer, my savior.
To never leave you alone in your tribulations, no matter the danger to myself.
To stand by you always through sickness and in health, through poverty and wealth,
Whatever face of fortune we meet.

Here and now, I vow to you
The three greatest promises a man can keep:
If ever the need be, I will live for you, and I will kill for you, and I will die for you.

But even still, I promise you more.
That as we both must leave these forms behind us,
When the will of our Creator turns our bodies to dust,
If my soul has any sense at all
I vow to seek you out.
In the next life, and beyond, whatever path I journey on
Will always lead to you, even if I have to forge a path anew to find you.
So we may walk together, to rest and respite in each other’s arms
Eternally, returning to the Source, the Warmth, the Heart
of the Holy One who made us,
the Universe that gave us life.

I vow by everything I am.
To bind you as my bride,
That time may not untie us.